zzzz History Notes Ch. 9

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This pages if for Ryan, Catherine, Garrett, and Spencer.

There's eight sections so we can all do two. I can 9.5 and 9.6.
~Catie V.
i will do 9.3 and 9.4-garrett w.

K I will do some too.-Spencer 9.7-9.8 :P
















9.3 The Qur'an and the Sunnah
  • the Qur'an describes God's laws and moral teachings
  • the Sunnah is the examples, words, and deeds of Muhammed
  • The Qur'an is related to the Christian Bible and Jewish Torah because they both are about Moses, Abraham, Adam, Noah, and God
  • Muslims showed their reverence to the Qur'an by keeping it clean and off the ground and by memorizing its versus
  • Hadiths are related to the Sunnah because they are both written records and both are about the prophet, Muhammed

9.4 The First Pillar: Shahadah (Profession of Faith)
  • Muslims repeat the phrase "THere is no god but God, and Muhammed is the prophet." as and expression of shahadah
  • Allah = God, he/she/it is the 1 god who created the universe
  • Allah is the same God that Christians and Jews worship
  • Muslims believe that angels are Gods workers who put down records
  • Muslims believe that a day of judgement will come where they will either go to heaven or hell after God's judgement

9.5 The Second Pillar: Salat (Dailey Worship)
  • Muslims pray 5 times a day at dawn, midday, noon, sunset, and night
  • they pray towards Makkah (Mecca)
  • before praying Muslims purify themselves with water
  • usually they pray at mosques but they also bring a rug to [[#|pray on]] if they are somewhere else
  • beads- God's words
  • mosque- temple
  • quibla- direction of Makkah
  • rugs- substitution for a mosque
  • muezzings- person who says pray on a mosque
  • imams- [[#|prayer]] leader

9.6 The Third Pillar: Zakat (Almsgiving)
  • important because they believe wealth becomes pure when you give it away and it controls greed
  • Muslims give atleast 2.5% of their wealth
  • zakat pays for: schools, orphanages, hospitals, inns, water, debt, clothes, fees
  • many other religions also practice giving



9.7 The Fourth Pillar: Ramadan
  • This is preformed by fasting
  • Fasting means going without food in the daylight hours
  • The poor, ill, and travelers did not preform this
  • Done for many reasons


9.8 The Fifth Pillar:hajj
  • Pilgrimage to Mecca
  • Places Muhammad visited w
  • Pray at kaabah the Angel Gabriel
  • Abraham built it supposedly
  • Places all Muslim sacred sites